A fun step by step guide to drawing animals. Probably more suited to older children (or even adults!) but this is a fun and engaging book.

Thank you to the publisher for an advance copy via netgalley!!

The drawings of animals are very cute in this book. However, the difficulty of drawing them is pretty hard for an average person like myself.

I found this super cute and definitely a book full of animals that kids, teens, adults can all doodle. I did not find the drawings to always be super easy as there was a basic starting shape that may be difficult for some to make. However the book does allow for characters to “make it their own” with customizable details. That was cute.

Draw 62 Animals and Make Them Happy is a great doodle book for children and beginner artists. The drawings are fun and cheerful and simple enough for anyone to have a go at. Many of the pictures are not step by step but are easy enough to follow, and it wouldn't be difficult to add your own twist or adapt them into other things. Overall a fun rainy day book for creative kids.

Fun book, kids will love this book.
I breaks down how to draw several different kinds of animals. Also shows some alternate ways to draw them.
Think all ages could have fun with it.

I received an ARC from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

This book will not teach you drawing basics, or how to draw animals photorealistically. Instead, it dives you some basic steps to create a gute, cartoonish animal, and adds tips and examples how to make these animals happy. The examples were really cute and made me smile a lot.
It also shows that you don't have to be the best digital photorealistic painter to create art that makes people smile. Some lines and a bit oh shading with cute details are enough for that. These animals are a great inspiration for self-drawn postcards and such.

I would definitely say this book is not for absolute beginners when it comes to art and drawing, there is not an awful lot of technical advice but we produced some really great animal drawings using this book.
Although slightly more advanced I found the drawing stages easy to follow and loved the little tweaks to make each animal to give them an individual touch, a hat here, a smirk there. I loved the different personalities and the vast range of animals. As much as we enjoy drawing a cat or a bear it was a lot of fun trying some more obscure animals such as a hermit crab or a ferret

I’m not an artist of any type, but my 10 year old granddaughter loves to draw. It just so happens I was visiting and had her look at the book with me. She loved the overall content, but thought it was definitely for very experienced artists.

Even though the beginning lines were there at the start there was not enough to help a beginner or even a semi-advanced artist. This book is geared for artists that are into shadows,shading, and into small details. But she loved all the different animals, but she wished there was more color in the book,

I realize the book is for advanced artists, but it does have some valuable techniques that would enable a beginner and advanced student to hone their skills.
I know that due to the shading is probably why there is no color in the book, but maybe the final picture could be black n white and also color.

I would recommend this book.

I received an advanced copy from NetGalley and these are my willingly given thoughts and opinions.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an electronic copy to read and review.

This is a great book for older kids to learn to draw animals. I was hoping that it would have been suitable for younger children, but realistically it is best for kids 8 and up. There are super adorable drawings with some great details. A basic understanding of how to emulate what is on the page is necessary. This will be great for children who enjoy drawing and would like to get better at drawing a variety of animals.

Draw 62 Animals and Make Them Happy is a fun tutorial drawing book for all-ages by Terry Runyan. Due out 20th Oct from Quarto on their Quarry imprint, it's 128 pages and will be available in paperback format.

This is a fun and accessible drawing book with a similar format to the other books in the series. I love drawing tutorial books even though I'm a scientist and don't consider myself an artist. I like the feelings of fun and freedom drawing gives although I'm very often intimidated by starting on a blank page. This tutorial book gives the reader "permission" to just start drawing, to get ink on paper, and that's a big deal. Given the state of the world right now, being able to draw something *happy* is priceless. This might have benefitted by being something of a "right book at the right time", but if so, it's a great bit of serendipity. I spent a week drawing and doodling some of the tutorials here and it's just been so fun and entertaining. I'm still a scientist and not a brilliant technical artist, but I had fun.

The tutorials are exactly that - step by step line drawn series of pictures start to finish. There aren't a lot of extraneous bells and whistles here. There's a full table of contents with each of the animals listed - and it is a comprehensive list; from guinea pig and walrus to binturong and long-eared jerboa.They're whimsically drawn and the format for each is a two page spread with the tutorial drawings on the left page and a "try it yourself" on the facing page with a number of suggested similar poses and settings including other animals and scenery.

Great selection for a gift for a young artist, perhaps with some added sketch pads and pencils. This would also make a superlative classroom or library book.I would also recommend this book to babysitters, grandparents, parents, and basically anyone who spends a fair bit of time with small kids in order to up their 'draw with me' game. I really enjoyed this. I will use these to decorate journals and notes for friends. I see some line drawn animal scientists in my future (emu and lemur lab nerds with microscope, lab, and test tubes)!

The tutorials are all simple line drawings but would obviously lend themselves well to coloring with other media after drawing.

Five stars.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.